Exxon, Shell win Iraq oil field deal
BAGHDAD A consortium grouping U.S. and European oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC today signed a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq s most prized oil fields, as the OPEC nation looks to revamp its battered energy sec...
 4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 75.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Baghdad blasts kill 155
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraqi security forces blocked streets around the capital today and conducted intense searches at checkpoints as authorities investigated the massive security failure that allowed two truck bombs to strike what was supposed to be one of...
4.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bombs kill 6 around Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) Car bombs and planted explosives killed six people, mostly police, today in different areas of Iraq, as a low level insurgency continues to target the country s struggling security forces. A car packed with explosives blew up at a gas ...
2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 545.0 Rescuing Bandar
WASHINGTON (AP) They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets. When it was time to go home, Joe...
13.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 213.0 Staying Connected
BEND (AP) Every Sunday night, just before bedtime, Caitlin and Luke Wulf wave at a computer screen, say good night and close the video chat program that connects them with their father. They head back downstairs, put on their pajamas and go to slee...
6.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 151.0 Commander: U.S. can't lose sight of Iraq
LARA JAKES,Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The top American commander in Iraq on Wednesday warned Congress against losing sight of that nation as a key Mideast ally, even as safer conditions have let him send home more U.S. troops faster th...
3.9K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 Iraqi shoe thrower says he was tortured
BAGHDAD (AP) The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush was released Tuesday after nine months in prison and in a defiant address, he accused Iraqi security forces of torturing him with beatings, whippings and elect...
5.7K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 454.0 Truck bomb kills at least 19 people
BAGHDAD (AP) A suicide truck bomber hit a residential area of a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn today, killing at least 19 people and injuring 30 others, officials said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of ethnic attacks i...
1.4K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 391.0 Soldier killed in Iraq war honored with base name
REDMOND An air passenger terminal at a base northeast of Baghdad has been named for Pfc. Cody J. Eggleston, a soldier from Oregon who died from injuries in the Iraq war. The 21-year-old was wounded in an Oct. 16 attack at Forward Operating Base War...
1.6K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 75.0 Ex-CIA officials question Blackwater s use
WASHINGTON When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot s...
7.7K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 75.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. District 9 Aliens who arr...
7.4K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 'Hurt Locker' is strongest Iraq war film yet
Despite their admirable intentions and acclaimed names on both sides of the camera, the vast majority of movies made about the Iraq war have failed to hit the mark. Either they felt too preachy, like Rendition and In the Valley of Elah, or they w...
3.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Two Oregonians killed today in Iraq
Two Oregon National Guard members were killed and one wounded during a convoy security mission in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Friday. The injured was taken to a combat support hospital for treatment with no additional information on status of injuries. Th...
0.5K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Powerful Shiite leader dies in Iran
BAGHDAD (AP) Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq s most influential politicians, died today in Iran, the country that was long h...
7.2K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 Four soldiers face cruelty charges
BAGHDAD (AP) Four American soldiers in Iraq have been charged with cruelty and maltreatment of soldiers in their platoon, the U.S. military said Friday. The four Multi-National Division-South soldiers are accused of abusing male soldiers with exces...
2.4K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 75.0 Iraq: Bomb kills 2 near restaurant in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) A bicycle bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad Thursday killing two people in a deadly reminder of Iraq s security problems as the death toll rose to at least 101 from a string of blasts the day before that mainly targeted heavil...
5.6K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 696.0 Our tale from Iraq
How can we as a nation even consider using our military for another surge in Afghanistan when the surge in Iraq has left little more imprint on the sands of Mesopotamia than the receding tide? I am writing from a pro-military, anti-jihad point of...
3.1K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 75.0 Moralez, Cato and Miller shine at 'Idol'
COOS BAY After almost a year since her last top score in Bay Area Teen Idol, Star Moralez is back. After a month since her only previous top-three showing, Marissa Cato returned, too, as did Thaddeus Miller, after just one week outside the top thre...
3.4K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 75.0 Bombs target Shiites
BAGHDAD A double truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, while nine blasts wracked Baghdad today in a wave of violence that killed at least 48 people and wounded more than 250,...
6.0K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 240.0 | 
